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A1 - Sharma, Upasna
A1 - Patwardhan, Anand
A1 - Patt, Anthony G.
TI - Education as a Determinant of Response to Cyclone Warnings: Evidence from Coastal Zones in India
N2 - Education is often considered a means for enhancing adaptive capacity, based on the consideration that formal education is likely to improve the ability of individuals to evaluate risks and respond to warning information. We explore the relation between the level and nature of education and enhanced ability to respond to tropical cyclone risk. We make a distinction between formal school-based education and nonformal education in the form of traditional knowledge of environmental precursors and conditions that may be associated with tropical cyclone occurrence. We evaluate two possible routes through which education could lead to enhanced ability to respond to tropical cyclone risk; first, education, both formal and nonformal, may lead to a better ability to access, understand, and interpret warning information and hence lead to an appropriate response to the warning; and second, formal education may be associated with greater income levels and socioeconomic status and thus with greater resources for evacuating in response to cyclone warning. We find that the hypotheses regarding the link between formal education and adaptive capacity are actually not well supported by empirical data. On the other hand nonformal education in the form of traditional knowledge for predicting cyclones based on environmental precursors emerged as a significant determinant of the ability to understand and interpret warning information and provides a strong case for preserving and promoting a hazard-specific traditional knowledge base along with formal education.
JO - Ecology and Society
PB - The Resilience Alliance
Y1 - 2013
P1 - 2013
VL - 18
IS - 2
C7 - 18
UR - http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss2/art18/
DO - 10.5751/ES-05439-180218
KW - cyclones
KW - early warnings
KW - education
KW - traditional knowledge base
KW - warning-response process
ER -